On Wednesday morning Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan held a meeting to review the rescue operations in the Wayanad district, which was hit by landslides on July 30.
The number of people who died in the landslides that struck the hilly areas of Meppadi in Wayanad district on Tuesday following incessant rainfall has gone up to 158, the Kerala Revenue Department said today.
The chief minister Vijayan held a meeting at the office of the Disaster Management Authority in Thiruvananthapuram to take stock of the rescue efforts. As per a decision taken during the cabinet meeting, the Chief Minister will also reach Wayanad on August 1 morning to attend a state-level all-party meeting that has been convened for tomorrow.
Union minister George Kurian this morning visited the affected areas to take stock of the situation and met with survivors at relief camps.
Currently, a delegation of nine State ministers is in Wayanad assessing the relief camps. ‘Today, in the review meeting chaired by CM, the National Disaster Management Authority pointed out that they may be in a position to requisition ground penetrating radar that can be mounted on drones’ Kerala Chief Secretary V Venu told reporters.
A total of 1200 rescue workers from the Indian Army, DSC centre, Territorial Army, NDRF, Indian Navy and the IAF are deployed at the calamity-hit areas. Teams of Army, Air Force and Navy have joined personnel of NDRF, police force and firefighters in rescue efforts, Kerala Chief Secretary V Venu said.
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